Fly-trap.



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(Application filed Nov. 19, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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FLY-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,732, dated October24, 1899.

Application filed November 19, 1898. Serial No. 696,920. KNO model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, AARON HAMMOND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Harris, in the county of Sullivan and State of Missouri,have invented a new and useful Fly- Trap, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates generally to fly-traps, and more particularly toone intended to be used in connection with a device for removing theflies from cattle, the object being to provide a cheap and simpleappliance which can be used in connection with stables and barns for thepurpose of driving flies from the cattle as they pass to the said stableor barn.

With this object in view the invention consists, essentiallygof acovered way having a trap arranged centrally in the tpp thereof, beatersor scrapers depending from the top of said way to brush the flies fromthe backs of the animals, and an upwardly-projecting brush or beaterarranged about the center of the way along the bottom thereof for thepurpose of brushing the flies from the legs and stomach of the animal.

The invention consists also in certain details of construction andnovelties of combination, all of which will be fully describedhereinafter and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is aperspective view of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal section, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the fly-trapproper.

In the practical embodiment of my invention I employ a covered way A,which may be of any length desired, but preferably about forty feet inlength, six feet in width, and seven feet in height, said way beingprovided withadoor at each end. This wayis intended to be used as apreliminary passage-wayinto the stable or barn in which the cattle areto' be kept, and the purpose of arranging the said covered way at thispoint being to remove the flies from the-cattle and then entrap themafter such removal. A central opening A is made in the top or roof ofthe way, and fitted in said opening is a gauze cylinder B of the trap,said cylinder having a gauze cone 0 arranged therein, so as to beremovable, said cone having a small opening 0 in the top thereof,through which the flies can pass into the cylinder, but through whichthey will not repass to escape from the said cylinder.

In order to remove the flies from the cattle, so that they can pass upinto the trap, I employ the depending aprons 0r brushes D, which hangfrom the roof of the way upon each side of the central opening andadjacent thereto, said brushes to be made adjustable, so that they willbrush the backs and flanks of the cattle as they pass through the way,and the flies being thus removed will immediately fly upwardly throughthe light-opening in the center and in this way enter the trap, it beingof course understood that the remainder of the way is dark, the onlylightopening being the opening at the top in which the trap is fitted.

An upwardly-projecting brush E is arranged upon the bottom of the waydirectly beneath the trap, said brush projecting far enough upward tobrush the cattle as they pass therefrom, whereby all of the flies willbe removed from the cattle as they pass beneath the depending aprons orbrushes and over the upwardly-projecting brush.

It will thus be seen that I provide an exceedingly simple and efficientmeans for brushing the flies from the cattle as they pass to the barnand then entrapping the said flies, thereby preventing them renteringthe barn and annoying the cattle.

WVindows may be arranged in the roof, if desired, and covered by acurtain, except when the cattle are driven through.

Having thus fullydescribed myinvention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a device of the kind described, acovered way having an opening inthe top thereof and a trap arranged in said opening and above the top ofthe way, and the depending aprons or brushes arranged within the wayupon 0pposite sides of the central opening, and an upwardly-projectingbrush positioned at the bottom of the way and intermediate of thedepending brushes, substantially as shown and described.

2. In adevice of the kind described, the covered way, a central openingin the top thereof,

a trap fitted in said opening and arranged thereof, beneath the trap andintermediate of above the top of the Way, light-a dinittingaperthedepending curtains, substantially as de tnres in the top of the Way, thedepending scribed.

apron suspended from the top and upon op- AARON HAMMOND. tposite sidesof the openings and extending Witnesses:

entirely across the way, and the upwardly-ex- E. 11. ODN EAL,

tending brushes arranged across the bottom \V. H. ODNEAL.

